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Nature 406, 683-685 (17 August 2000) | doi:10.1038/35021159
Microbiology: Lipid lunch for persistent pathogen
William Bishai
The bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a bit of an oddity among microorganisms that invade the human respiratory tract. Most of them, such as Streptococcus pneumoniae, enter their host by colonizing the unsterile upper respiratory tract, waiting for a breach in host defences, and then mounting a burst of replication.
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